Amos 4:8-10
New English Translation
8 People from[a] two or three cities staggered into one city to get[b] water,
but remained thirsty.[c]
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking
9 “I destroyed your crops[d] with blight and disease.
Locusts kept[e] devouring your orchards,[f] vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees.
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking
10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues.[g]
I killed your young men with the sword,
along with the horses you had captured.
I made the stench from the corpses[h] rise up into your nostrils.
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking
Footnotes
- Amos 4:8 tn The words “people from” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
- Amos 4:8 tn Heb “to drink.”
- Amos 4:8 tn Or “were not satisfied.”
- Amos 4:9 tn Heb “you.” By metonymy the crops belonging to these people are meant. See the remainder of this verse, which describes the agricultural devastation caused by locusts.
- Amos 4:9 tn The Hiphil infinitive construct is taken adverbially (“kept”) and connected to the activity of the locusts (NJPS). It also could be taken with the preceding sentence and related to the Lord’s interventions (“I kept destroying,” cf. NEB, NJB, NIV, NRSV), or it could be understood substantivally in construct with the following nouns (“Locusts devoured your many orchards,” cf. NASB; cf. also KJV, NKJV).
- Amos 4:9 tn Or “gardens.”
- Amos 4:10 tn Heb “in the manner [or “way”] of Egypt.”
- Amos 4:10 tn Heb “of your camps [or “armies”].”
Amos 4:8-10
King James Version
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
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